LETTER : Weather we remember, 1939
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Patrick Mead
Sir: Man's perception of our climate and/or the drought has changed, as compared with 1591 when an Elizabethan, John Kay, wrote of a very dry summer, says Gerald Hinchliffe (Letters, 22 August), making perhaps a contentious statement.
I have memories of a glorious summer in 1939, and an absolutely brilliant summer in 1940, the latter being distinctly dry, but no recollection of water shortage problems.
It would be interesting to know what other men's and women's perceptions were of those years.
Yours faithfully,
Patrick Mead
Cranleigh,
Surrey
23 August
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